I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

I’m already the face of the UFC, plus the face of boxing, WWE, and Hollywood.

I say this everywhere I go: I admire and respect Hillary. She has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

I’ve never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they’re like, ‚Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,‘ but I’m like, ‚I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,‘ so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Today, we’re still loaded down – and, to some extent, embarrassed – by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

I used to dream about taking the ball ‚round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

You’re not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That’s not a place for me to joke around.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn’t mind it if I didn’t.

I try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.